HRCT manifestation and follow-up observation of pulmonary langerhans cell histiocfytosis
MA Chenhui
WANG Jie
WANG Jingfeng
PAN Jianguang
LIU Jiafu
LIN Zhengyu
Abstract：Objective To study the HRCT findings and follow-up observation of pulmonary langerhans cell histiocytosis, and to make a further understanding of the disease.Methods Thirteen patients'HRCT and clinical manifestations with pathologically confirmed PLCH were tetrospectively analyzed.Results The main findings in 13 PLCHs were cysts, nodules and pulmonary interstitial changes.One case had nodules which most had cavitation, two cases only had custs, three cases showed nudules and pulmonary interstitial changes, one case had cysts, nodules and pulmonary interstitial changes, the other six cases showed cysts and nodules.Thirteen cases had lesion not only in the upper and middle but in the lower lung field, of which two cases had more lesion in the upper lung and costophrenic angle field and three cases had more lesions in the superior lobe and apical segment of lower lobe.Two case had more lesions in in the lower lung field, and the other six cases had more lesions in the superior lobe and less lesions in the apical segment of lower lobe.Followed-up of 9 patients, 6 cases improved, 1 case progressed, and 2 cases resembled.Conclusion HRCT and clinical manifestation of PLCH are helpful for the early diagnosis.
Keywords：HistiocytosisLangeihans-cellLungTomographyX-ray computed
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1249-1253 )